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I think John Searle wants his Chinese room back



The similarity is well-spotted, but this predates the Chinese Room by two decades. Lucas's essay was actually cited in Searle's: http://cogprints.org/7150/1/10.1.1.83.5248.pdf


Good point. In any case, those arguments suffer from the same weakness.

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